Hardwood Floors August/September 2025

Organizing the tools for the traveling NWFA schools is like organizing a work van or trailer. The only difference is we are packing everything you need for an installation class into two job boxes. The large INSIDE THE JOB BOX FOR NWFA SCHOOLS

brown job box has everything from various saws, hand tools,

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moisture meters, and other items that the instructors and students will need. The smaller green job box has air compressors, cleat and finish nailers, air hoses, and mallets. That’s a lot of tools in a small footprint, so the way I have found to make life easy for our regional instructors to pack and unpack the job boxes is to use pictures taped to the inner lid of the job box showing them how the tools should

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be packed. Also, on the inner bottom of the box, I have included an outline of which tools need to be packed into the box first. No matter what organizational method you use, the important thing is that it works for you and helps your jobs to flow smoothly.

– Terry Patton, NWFA

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